It is used on vegetable crops such as carrots, cucumbers, peppers, and melons and in cotton and turfgrass to control annual grasses such as bluegrass and crabgrass and broadleaf weeds.

Estimates place the total use of bensulide in the United States at about 632,000 pounds annually.

Bensulide may be used on turf (primarily golf course greens and tees), on ornamentals, and for greenhouse and outdoor uses in commercial nurseries.

Dietary exposures from eating food crops treated with bensulide are below the level of concern for the entire U.S. population, including infants and children.

EPA also has risk concerns for workers who mix, load, and/or apply bensulide to agricultural sites, golf courses, and home lawns.